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frigg
05/20/09

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So this new storage technology uses gold.

Pirates like gold.

Pirates like storage.

I can see where this is going...
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bosskev
05/20/09

@frigg: So, would this be the natural progression for orders of magnitude of data:

megabyte

gigabyte

terabyte

mateybyte
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Monty
05/20/09

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Now if only people would stop moving to online media, maybe there would be a market for it whenever they figure out how to make a product based on this concept. Seriously, I am sure there would be plenty of great uses for it, but it does seem a little out of date given the direction of the media market these days.
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mGARANDEUR1
05/20/09

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Sweet. With an 18X DVD burner it will only take over 9000 hours to burn one!
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SegamanXero
05/20/09

@mGARANDEUR1: O_o

"Vagita what does the computer say about DVD burning time?"

Breaks LCD screen "ITS OVER 9000 HOURS"

"What! OVER 9000!"
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/20/09

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Am I misreading this or should it be 1.1TB/cm2 (not cm3), since DVDs are flat?
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bosskev
05/20/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: They probably do mean "cubed" since this recording process includes a significant element of depth, i.e., it's based not on area but on a volume with three axes. Now, whether or not the "DVD" would look thicker, can't say yet.
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bosskev
05/20/09

@bosskev: 1... 2... 3... 4... 5

OK, anyone ELSE wanna jump in and say the same thing???

;^)
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/20/09

@bosskev: The abstract, interestingly, describes the recording process as "five-dimensional" - three spatial dimensions, one wavelength dimension and one polarization dimension. It seems like this would enable infinite layers of recording if resolution was infinite (which of course it is not).

Anyway, to my untrained mind, it seems strange to describe this kind of medium as volume-based, since depth is so much more constraining than surface area. You cannot have 1 cm-thick DVDs, for instance, so the size of your storage medium will always be dominated by how long/wide it is.

Or maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way. I'm not a micro-laser-disc, um engineering person by any means.
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bosskev
05/20/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: "...so the size of your storage medium will always be dominated by how long/wide it is."

EVERYTHING is dominated by how long/wide it is.
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bosskev
05/20/09

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"...they predict that it will be a write once, read forever medium."

I'd think that "forever" part is a wee bit optimistic, but I'd be hopeful for at least a couple of decades.
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Software_Goddess
05/20/09

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I guess they did not get the memo about '2 objects can not occupy the same spot in time/space'
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
05/21/09

@Software_Goddess: My friend... if they can have two girls in one cup then anything is possible. Dare to dream friend, dare to dream.
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